Elizabeth McGovern

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Elizabeth McGovern
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Background information
Born Jul 18, 1961
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Education: Juilliard School
Spouse(s): Simon Curtis (filmmaker) 1992
Children: Matilda and Grace
Occupation: Actress
Years active 1979–present

Elizabeth Lee McGovern (born July 18, 1961) is an American film, television, and theater actor, and musician. She received an Academy Award nomination for her role as Evelyn Nesbit in the 1981 film Ragtime. She is also known for her performance as Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, in the British drama series "Downton Abbey", for which she has been nominated for an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award. Her other films include "Ordinary People" (1980), "Once Upon a Time in America" (1984), "The Handmaid's Tale" (1990), "The Wings of the Dove" (1997) and "The Chaperone" (2018).

Roles in New York include:

  • Melissa Gardner in Love Letters (A R Gurney) at the Edison Theatre, October 1989
  • Ophelia in Hamlet with the Roundabout Theater Company at the Criterion Center Stage Right, April 1992.
  • Mrs. Conway in Time and the Conways at the American Airlines Theatre, October 2017

In her theater program CVs (below), McGovern lists her other theater work in the U.S. as including:

  • My Sister in This House (Wendy Kesselman)
  • Painting Churches (Tina Howe)
  • The Hitch-Hiker
  • A Map of the World (David Hare)
  • Aunt Dan and Lemon (Wallace Shawn)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream at the New York Shakespeare Festival, Winter 1987
  • When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout (Sharman Macdonald)
  • Maids of Honour
  • Three Sisters (Chekhov)
  • As You Like It

Since moving to London, McGovern's stage work has included:

  • Jenny in The Misanthrope (Molière freely adapted by Martin Crimp) at the Young Vic Theatre, February 1996
  • Darlene in Hurlyburly (David Rabe) at the Old Vic Theatre, March 1997
  • Nan and Lina in Three Days of Rain (Richard Greenberg) at the Donmar Warehouse, March and November 1999
  • Beth in Dinner With Friends (Donald Margulies) at the Hampstead Theatre, June 2001
  • Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne adapted by Phyllis Nagy) at the Minerva Theatre, August 2005
  • Jackie Kennedy in Aristo at the Minerva Theatre, September – October 2008
  • Judith Brown in Complicit by Joe Sutton in The Old Vic, January 2009
  • Miss A in The Shawl by David Mamet in the Arcola Theatre, September 2009
  • Veronica in God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza at the Theatre Royal, Bath, August – September 2018

McGovern was awarded the 2013 Will Award by the Shakespeare Theatre Company.

Personal life

In 1992, she married British film director and producer Simon Curtis; the couple have two daughters, Matilda and Grace

Nexus: Evelyn Nesbit
"Woman: the Eternal Question, 1901"
  • Articles in this Category are related to The Girl in the Velvet Swing, Evelyn Nesbit.
  • She was a model for Charles Dana Gibson's "Woman: the Eternal Question, 1901"
  • She personified the Gibson Girl
  • she was one of the most photographed people of her time
  • At age of 16, she was drugged and raped by Stanford White
  • She married a deranged and jealous Harry Kendall Thaw
  • On June 25, 1906, Stanford White was attending a musical show at Madison Square Garden
  • Thaw approached White and shot him - White was hit in the face and died instantly
  • Only one week after the murder, a nickelodeon film, "Rooftop Murder", was released, rushed into production by Thomas Edison.
  • The shooting was the basis for the film "Ragtime" with James Cagney and Elizabeth McGovern
  • The ensuing trial became known as the "The Trial of the Century" (see Stanford White for more information)
  • Thaw, being a multi-millionaire, was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
  • In 1916, Thaw was charged with the kidnapping, beating, and sexual assault of nineteen-year-old Frederick Gump
  • Thaw died of a heart attack in Miami, Florida, on February 22, 1947

The following articles are related to "Evelyn Nesbit" as their nexus


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